[B-Greek] Feedback

Randall Buth randallbuth at gmail.com
Fri Jan 25 03:50:00 EST 2008


Hugh egrapse
> on becoming a Greek scholar. ...
> But I just wanted to see a decent article there on
> learning Greek well.>

Since the referrence in the b-greek posting was on Amazon
it is appropriate that Hugh has listed a collection of standard
books that students will need. it's a good list.

there are also two major items that are part of the picture that
were not explicitly addressed.

1. If a student wants to become a scholar, reliably
knowledgable of a subject, they need to have contact and
interaction with scholars in that field. This is part of the
'iron sharpens iron' process. Normally this is done through
schools.
2. In a literature field, they need to be speaking and using the
language of their chosen literature. The trap, something like
the 'emperor with no clothes', is that students can pursue the
booklists for 10-20 years and not be able to think in the
language fluently. By then it is usually too late and the
person simply accepts this state of affairs as normal.
But it is not how Hebrew was kept alive for 1700 years as
a second language in Jewish communities.

Some of us from biblicalulpan.org
have put up two parables about these things on a blog
http://alefandomega.blogspot.com/
one in Greek, one in Hebrew.
One might think of this as a common sense litmus test
toward evaluating any Greek literature program.

Two inevitable questions always arise concerning biblical
Greek and Hebrew studies. The scholars and programs
do not currently demand these levels of language,
(1) so why bother?
     Because the person will be a better scholar than they
would have been without fluent control of the language.
(2) how is this  "second language acquisition" possible?
     This is addressed between the lines in the parables.
So enjoy the parables.
(a link to www.biblicalulpan.org  will be added when the
blogger 'add layout item' quits looping in my computer.)



--
Randall Buth, PhD
www.biblicalulpan.org
χάρις ὑμῖν καὶ εἰρήνη πληθυνθείη
שלום לכם וברכות
randallbuth at gmail.com



-- 
Randall Buth, PhD
www.biblicalulpan.org
χάρις ὑμῖν καὶ εἰρήνη πληθυνθείη
שלום לכם וברכות
randallbuth at gmail.com


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